Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index
Art, Culture, and Professionalism -- Art as a Socially Constrained Pursuit -- Technique, Significant Experience, Abstraction -- The Playing Out of Artistic Styles -- The Professionalization of Art: Isolation and Technology -- The Professionalization of Art: The Taught Tradition -- Critics, Merchants, Consumers, Bureaucrats -- Art and the Cultural System: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of P.A. Sorokin -- Art and the Cultural System: F.S.C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, Beginning, the Spirit of the West -- Art and the Cultural System: F.S.C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, Conclusion, the Spirit of the East -- The Cultural Functions of the Artist: Kroeber's Configurations of Culture Growth